Romans 1:28: And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Pagan humanity’s rebellion also included the rejection of the knowledge (“full knowledge”) of God. In a sense they put God out of their minds. God’s responding judgment was abandonment (cf. vv. 24, 26) to a depraved (“disapproved”) mind, which expressed itself in attitudes and actions that ought not to be done (lit., “what is unfitting or improper”). 1
Anybody who tells me that he can be a child of God and live in perversion, live in the thick mire of our contemporary permissiveness, is not kidding anyone but himself. If he will come to Christ, he can have deliverance. 2
Application
- Do you have a spiritual hunger to know the truth?
- Do you have a spiritual will to do the truth?
Prayer
Lord, please keep me from having a worldly appetite. I want to hunger and thirst for righteousness and be filled only by Your faithfulness alone.
1. Wiersbe, W. W. (1996). The Bible exposition commentary. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books.
2. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (Romans 1-8) (electronic ed., Vol. 42). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.